Oliver Knott (Germany): It was a pleasure for me voting the Nano Contest this year. Congratulation to all participants you do a great job. So hold on this hobby and take part next year again! Yours Oliver Knott

Sergey Kochetov (Russia): Miniature aquarium contest seems to be promising to me, if only because the creation of layout is not as time-consuming and expensive as for large aquariums. But here there are objective difficulties in making spatial compositions. That is why it is important to use all the creativity and fantasy of the authors. Forty works that participated in the contest this year have shown, in my opinion, the possibility of creating many interesting aquascapes. Judging this small competition was not time-consuming and, therefore, not difficult. Just before the start of the evaluation I set for myself maximum and minimum points for each category, based on previous judicial experience. All of them are seen in the form. As an aquarist and arbiter of the old Soviet school, I do not like aquariums without fish and, therefore, always welcome the diversity of fish fauna and mention this in giving points. I also want to say that I saw a lot of interesting works in mini aquariums in Planted Aquarium Design Contest that was held in the same time, but, of course, it is up to authors to decide which contest the aquarium should be submitted to. As usual, I tried not to offend members with the big difference in my points, in my opinion, everyone is worth encouraging.